now, that is so ridiculous that most of us use other kinds of baselines. we use something called the current policy baseline which essentially stems all of these tax loss. but more recently for everybody seems to be able to choose their own base line. the president has his own very peculiar baseline which takes credit for saving money commending the wars, bowls since then, as much as i admire what they did, they have the rather on baseline which assumes that we did not continue the tax cuts for the rich. so no wonder the public is totally baffled by all of this. i don't think other countries even use the concept of the baseline. the british austerity program, they compare what they supposed to what they did last year. a really radical notion. and so they, for example, proposed a path for spending which shows ever increasing spending on health. they don't compare it of -- where israel we talk about performing social security we talk about cuts in benefits. all your doing is slowing the growth. she looked at the ball simpson proposal for social security, the